Books

Jesse's Word of the Day, 1998. New York: Random
House. Compilation of columns written for the Q-and-A
Jesse's Word of the Day website (formerly part of
the Random House site, now no longer maintained).

The F-Word, 1995. New York: Random House.
Historical glossary of the word fuck.

North American Sports Terms in OED3,
International Conference on Historical Lexicography
and Lexicology 5, Oxford, 2010.

Dictionaries, the OED, and its Quotations,
Great Writing, 2009, Bangor University (invited
keynote presentation).

Implicit and Explicit Definitions of "Slang" in
Black-Oriented Dictionaries, Dictionary Society
of North America conference, 2009.

The Next 150 Years of the OED, Modern Language
Association conference (Lexicography Discussion Group),
2007.

The Quotation Paragraph in Historical Lexicography,
Dictionary Society of North America conference, 2007.

A Discussion of the Problems and Possibilities of
Language in Internationalizing Liberal Education,
Liberal Arts Education in America and the World
conference, American Conference of Academic Deans/Phi Beta
Kappa, 2005 (invited plenary lecture).

Slang in Black-Oriented Dictionaries,
Dictionary Society of North America conference, 2005. (Not
delivered due to illness.)